5 Songs in My Head at Any Given Time
1) Shadows of the Night- Pat Benatar
2) Pink Houses- John Cougar Mellencamp
3) The Sound of Music- Rodgers and Hammerstein
4) If it Be Your Will- Leonard Cohen
5) O mio babbino caro-Gianni Schicchi
4 Movies that I can Watch Every Year
1) The Philadelphia Story
2) Fried Green Tomatoes
3) Best in Show
4) American Beauty
3 Places I Miss Living In from Time to Time
1) Boston, MA
2) Ashland, OR
3) Ocracoke, NC
2 Places I want to Live Someday, at least for awhile
1) Italy
2) Peru
The One Thing I Miss Most
1) My Mom
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
SPIN SPIN SPIN
So yesterday I decided I was going to attempt the entire 60 minute SPIN class. The Sunday class is for the old, fat, and/or injured... while I have managed to pick up at least 5 of the pounds I lost before the hamstring tear, I think I mostly qualified for the class as being one of the injured.
But here is the good news... I did the whole class. Sure I did it with very little tension on the fly wheel, and no I didn't push myself to an aerobic heart rate. It was just a good fat burn intensity... but I made it through the entire class without any pain.
I made sure to ice last night and I took plenty of Advil and 1/2 a muscle relaxer. But this morning at 5am the gym called again without pain. Yeah! Weak but not in pain... and seriously more flexible on the injured side than the healthy this morning. That could be a sign I was overcompensating on the right, but I tried to be very mindful of that on Sunday.
So my goal now is to do it at least once more this week. I might go to my regular Wednesday class!
But here is the good news... I did the whole class. Sure I did it with very little tension on the fly wheel, and no I didn't push myself to an aerobic heart rate. It was just a good fat burn intensity... but I made it through the entire class without any pain.
I made sure to ice last night and I took plenty of Advil and 1/2 a muscle relaxer. But this morning at 5am the gym called again without pain. Yeah! Weak but not in pain... and seriously more flexible on the injured side than the healthy this morning. That could be a sign I was overcompensating on the right, but I tried to be very mindful of that on Sunday.
So my goal now is to do it at least once more this week. I might go to my regular Wednesday class!
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The Digital Age and Sounding Like My Parents
I've been a bit overwhelmed by technology lately.
First, my laptop became horrendously infected with all sorts of viruses and worms and scary things. It had been running fine for years, but started acting really poorly after a friend used it to check their email. They happened to download some stupid photo presentation in PowerPoint without asking me, even saved it to my desktop. While this might be a coincidence, my machine went to the bad within a day of the addition of this file to my desktop. I had the entire thing swept up and cleaned- and the dude removed a small arsenal of malicious crapola... but then my hard drive completely died. And I lost everything.
So, here I am with a new hard drive, slowly rebuilding all my contacts, etc., mourning the fact that I hadn't backed up to my external drive in far too long and lost a ton of data. But all replaceable stuff- just a matter of starting over.
Like many people today, I was still using Facebook. And then something weird happened- I was working on a budget spreadsheet when Excel tried to access the internet- to go to Facebook. Thankfully my new firewall alerted me to this fact, but I was like, "WTF? Why would Excel need to go to Facebook?" So I quit... deleted my Facebook account and decided I managed to get by for 37 years without it before, so who needed it? And like Betty White said on SNL- it really is a colossal waste of time. My favorite part of Facebook was really Bejeweled Blitz, so I splurged and bought a copy.
For the computer geeks out there that may have something to say about this, let me know. My machine seems to be fine now, and as far as all my nifty new security programs can tell, I am handling threats well. A new and better encrypted router helped as well, but I tell ya, one more stupid series of crap like this and I will be tempted to drop off the internet entirely, move to a remote cabin in the wilderness, and hunt my own food.
I remember arguing with my statistics professor in undergrad about getting an University provided email account. This was back in the 90's...I didn't want one, and she required it for her class. I told her it was the beginning of the end of normal communication, that it would lead to a new generation of people that had no ability to talk on the phone, have a normal face to face conversation, and who found lying to be an extremely easy thing to do. It would lead to a decay of moral fiber I argued- and I wanted none of it. I felt the same way about cell phones that could 'text'.
I have several young friends, in their 20's. Many of them lack a solid moral compass, yet this is in part a function of youth. But nearly all of them have no ability to talk on the phone, have a normal face to face conversation, and find lying to be an extremely easy thing to do.
As we plan having kids of our own, I can only imagine the how much I am going to sound like my parents in the coming years.
First, my laptop became horrendously infected with all sorts of viruses and worms and scary things. It had been running fine for years, but started acting really poorly after a friend used it to check their email. They happened to download some stupid photo presentation in PowerPoint without asking me, even saved it to my desktop. While this might be a coincidence, my machine went to the bad within a day of the addition of this file to my desktop. I had the entire thing swept up and cleaned- and the dude removed a small arsenal of malicious crapola... but then my hard drive completely died. And I lost everything.
So, here I am with a new hard drive, slowly rebuilding all my contacts, etc., mourning the fact that I hadn't backed up to my external drive in far too long and lost a ton of data. But all replaceable stuff- just a matter of starting over.
Like many people today, I was still using Facebook. And then something weird happened- I was working on a budget spreadsheet when Excel tried to access the internet- to go to Facebook. Thankfully my new firewall alerted me to this fact, but I was like, "WTF? Why would Excel need to go to Facebook?" So I quit... deleted my Facebook account and decided I managed to get by for 37 years without it before, so who needed it? And like Betty White said on SNL- it really is a colossal waste of time. My favorite part of Facebook was really Bejeweled Blitz, so I splurged and bought a copy.
For the computer geeks out there that may have something to say about this, let me know. My machine seems to be fine now, and as far as all my nifty new security programs can tell, I am handling threats well. A new and better encrypted router helped as well, but I tell ya, one more stupid series of crap like this and I will be tempted to drop off the internet entirely, move to a remote cabin in the wilderness, and hunt my own food.
I remember arguing with my statistics professor in undergrad about getting an University provided email account. This was back in the 90's...I didn't want one, and she required it for her class. I told her it was the beginning of the end of normal communication, that it would lead to a new generation of people that had no ability to talk on the phone, have a normal face to face conversation, and who found lying to be an extremely easy thing to do. It would lead to a decay of moral fiber I argued- and I wanted none of it. I felt the same way about cell phones that could 'text'.
I have several young friends, in their 20's. Many of them lack a solid moral compass, yet this is in part a function of youth. But nearly all of them have no ability to talk on the phone, have a normal face to face conversation, and find lying to be an extremely easy thing to do.
As we plan having kids of our own, I can only imagine the how much I am going to sound like my parents in the coming years.
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